Theme development

I was currious if anyone hast tried to use MOO.fx's (http://moofx.mad4milk.net/) cool javascript menus with drupal. I think it could be a nice effect to be used with the right or left menus.

David

I've posted on this before, and I'm going to try various solutions to it on my (developing) site when I get a chance, but I just thought I'd put in a request. As people far smarter than I work on new themes, I hope that a few of them give some consideration to assembling themes, particularly in phptemplate, that use horizontal block regions.

--|PW|--

Hi,

I've been working on a new site (4.7 using phpTemplate) which has a fairly standard layout with a Blog/Articles section and a forum. But I've been wanting the forum to have a different layout, the FlatForum module got me halfway there, but I need the forum page template to be different too.

So I made a little script in the page.tpl.php file to detect if the user was on the a forum page and deliver a different template if they were. Here is the code I'm using, it basically uses the url to detect if it is a forum page or if the node type is 'forum':

<?php

//////////////////////
// DETECT FORUM PAGE //
//////////////////////

$ukf_url_expode = explode('/', url($_GET['q'], NULL, NULL, NULL)); 
$ukf_url_expode_rev = array_reverse($ukf_url_expode); 


$ukf_url_nid = $ukf_url_expode_rev[0];

$sql = "SELECT vocabulary_node_types.vid
		FROM node, vocabulary_node_types
		WHERE $ukf_url_nid = node.nid 
		AND node.type = vocabulary_node_types.type";

$result = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

if ($ukf_url_expode[0] == 'forum' or $row[0] == '1' ):


//////////////////////
// START FORUM PAGE //
//////////////////////
?> 

**Forum Template Code**

<?php 
///////////////////////
// START NORMAL PAGE //
///////////////////////

**Normal Template code**

<?php
 endif;
?>
else: 
?> 

So far it is working fine, but I'm a designer really, not a programmer (I just learn what I need to as I go along) so I'd like the opinion of someone more versed in PHP as to whether it is a good idea to use this system on a production site or if it is a horrible hack that'll cause me problems later.

Hi all,

I recently visited the joomla page, and I view one nice feature that I want to implement in my drupal system. Is the possibility of changing the background according with the taxonomy or path.

For example you can view this page from joomla.

http://www.joomla.org/ (orange bg)
http://www.joomla.org/content/blogcategory/0/33/ (blue bg)

Can this be done in drupal using a single theme?

Thanks, Simon.

Ho there. Using 4.6.5. I imagine this must have come up before, though I can't find anything via search.

I've given my blogs their own theme using blog.tpl.php and node-blog.tpl.php. This works great for a display of blog entries. But it breaks down when comments get involved. Comment actions appear to use a URL which is a regular node, not a blog node - so my theme vanishes. (My blog theme incorporates a changed html structure, so the reversion destroys the layout. If it were purely CSS I could probably have fixed it via extra classes etc.)

I installed SmartyPants module for translating straight quotes to "curly" quotes. I enabled the filter for Filtered HTML input format and it's working correctly for the body text of my flexinode content.

However, the title is displayed without filtering. How can I make Drupal filter it too?